If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.

Software sucks because users demand it to.

If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.

Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.

Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.

Bill, we left megalomania behind a long time ago. Now we are gigalomaniacs.

For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want.

Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.

Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

The reason you’re going through what you’re going through is to receive the things you’ve been praying for.

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

I have to live my books before I write them.

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

I am not anti-west, I am PRO PAKISTAN

If any of my plays outlive me or get on library book shelves and somehow stay read, all of a sudden it's a testament to "that's part of our culture, that's part of our history."

Your trash can is full of energy bar wrappers." "You were looking through my trash?

(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.

I guess cause i'm black boy, I'm supposed to say 'peace', sing songs, and get capped on.